HALSEY MINOR

HALSEY MINOR

Biography

Halsey Minor is an Internet visionary who has to date founded or co-founded technology companies that have created over $100 Billion in cumulative value.

He is the founder of the crypto service Uphold, CNET Networks, the service now known as Google Voice, the leading web publishing platform Vignette, and OpenDNS. In February 2000 he stepped down as CEO of CNET, which at the time had earned $1.5 billion and was listed on the NASDAQ 100, to help build Salesforce.com, which launched in January 2000 with Halsey as its co-founder and second largest shareholder from inception until 2008. Most recently, Halsey founded and is CEO at Live Planet, the leading VR video platform.

Halsey is leading VideoCoin — video infrastructure for the blockchain-enabled Internet, featuring token-driven decentralized video encoding, storage, and distribution based on Live Planet-developed technology — with his unique set of experiences in content, platform creation, crypto, and even television (as CNET produced five shows for top cable networks USA, SCI FI, and CNBC during his tenure).